Our Smallest Friends==Resting in Peace #5 LbNA #50131
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 1, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Colchester |
| County: | New London |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | The Maple Leafs  |
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| Found by: | mamooshatoots (now Stamper) |
| Last found: | Jan 6, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 1, 2009 |
Rated: Easy
Westchester Cemetery
July 2010 #1 WAS MISSING, SO NEW BOX, INK, BOOK AND STAMP 9-4-10 in same place.
NEW 9-13-10 NOTE: BOX #1 FOUND, SO THERE ARE TWO #1 BOXES NOW!!! See its clue below.
Box 1 The Hummingbird
MOST KNOWN FACTS----The Hummingbird (Archilochus Colubris) lives in Eastern North America, from Southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, migrating to Central America. The Hummingbird is the smallest of all our birds. Their breeding season is from March to July with 1-2 broods of 2 pea-sized eggs per clutch. Their call is a faint squeak produced when excited by love or anger. Even if you don’t see them, you can hear them with the humming of their wings. Their rapid wing beat ranges from 60-70 and sometimes to 100 beats per minute. The Hummingbird needs to eat twice its body weight in food every day. They are very responsive to the colors of red and orange, and drink sweetened water, flower nectar and insects. Their beaks are very long and needle-like. They are able to hover in the air motionless and can fly backwards.
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS----Hummingbirds can perch, but have such weak feet and legs that they can scarcely walk. All Hummingbirds migrate and the sexes migrate separately, with the males arriving first, and move northward as the flowers appear. After mating, the male leaves… The female must build the nest, incubate the eggs and take care of the nestlings. They are first fed by regurgitation five times an hour. To maintain themselves during the day, Hummingbirds need to eat every 10-15 minutes. At night they fall into a torpor resembling hibernation, a condition requiring only a twentieth of their normal energy output and their temperature also drops. The next morning they arouse almost instantaneously.
DIRECTIONS: From Colchester center at the intersection of Route 85 and 16, take Route 16, toward Middletown and travel about 4 miles. Babcock Pond will be on your left and Cemetery Road will be on your RIGHT. Turn here and Westchester Cemetery will be immediately on your right with the dirt road looping around the cemetery and exiting onto Cemetery Road again.
CLUES: From the looped road, you will see in the middle of the cemetery a tall tree but, before you get to it, on its left, is a medium tall monument/stone with the name Williams on it, plus Jonathon Williams and Maryann Skinner on it. Next to the side of the stone is a green shrubbery plant with the box you are seeking near its base next to the stone. CLUE to the other #1 box is next to "CHATTERING FRIENDS" BOX UNDER KELLOG STONE WITH A DIFFERENT STAMP TO COUNT. Please stamp in and out and re hide well. Thank you for visiting.
P.S. There are other letterboxes here. Bring clues with you.
Westchester Cemetery
July 2010 #1 WAS MISSING, SO NEW BOX, INK, BOOK AND STAMP 9-4-10 in same place.
NEW 9-13-10 NOTE: BOX #1 FOUND, SO THERE ARE TWO #1 BOXES NOW!!! See its clue below.
Box 1 The Hummingbird
MOST KNOWN FACTS----The Hummingbird (Archilochus Colubris) lives in Eastern North America, from Southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, migrating to Central America. The Hummingbird is the smallest of all our birds. Their breeding season is from March to July with 1-2 broods of 2 pea-sized eggs per clutch. Their call is a faint squeak produced when excited by love or anger. Even if you don’t see them, you can hear them with the humming of their wings. Their rapid wing beat ranges from 60-70 and sometimes to 100 beats per minute. The Hummingbird needs to eat twice its body weight in food every day. They are very responsive to the colors of red and orange, and drink sweetened water, flower nectar and insects. Their beaks are very long and needle-like. They are able to hover in the air motionless and can fly backwards.
LITTLE KNOWN FACTS----Hummingbirds can perch, but have such weak feet and legs that they can scarcely walk. All Hummingbirds migrate and the sexes migrate separately, with the males arriving first, and move northward as the flowers appear. After mating, the male leaves… The female must build the nest, incubate the eggs and take care of the nestlings. They are first fed by regurgitation five times an hour. To maintain themselves during the day, Hummingbirds need to eat every 10-15 minutes. At night they fall into a torpor resembling hibernation, a condition requiring only a twentieth of their normal energy output and their temperature also drops. The next morning they arouse almost instantaneously.
DIRECTIONS: From Colchester center at the intersection of Route 85 and 16, take Route 16, toward Middletown and travel about 4 miles. Babcock Pond will be on your left and Cemetery Road will be on your RIGHT. Turn here and Westchester Cemetery will be immediately on your right with the dirt road looping around the cemetery and exiting onto Cemetery Road again.
CLUES: From the looped road, you will see in the middle of the cemetery a tall tree but, before you get to it, on its left, is a medium tall monument/stone with the name Williams on it, plus Jonathon Williams and Maryann Skinner on it. Next to the side of the stone is a green shrubbery plant with the box you are seeking near its base next to the stone. CLUE to the other #1 box is next to "CHATTERING FRIENDS" BOX UNDER KELLOG STONE WITH A DIFFERENT STAMP TO COUNT. Please stamp in and out and re hide well. Thank you for visiting.
P.S. There are other letterboxes here. Bring clues with you.